The Bias Detective's Toolkit: How to Spot Flawed Thinking in Yourself

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Across
  1. 4. Causing a feeling of anxiety, disturbance, or unease; making you feel something is not quite right.
  2. 5. A deceptive appearance or belief; something that is likely to be wrongly interpreted by the senses.
  3. 6. In a perfectly clean, untouched, or unspoiled state, like a collector's item in its original box.
  4. 11. The awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes; thinking about your thinking.
  5. 12. Based on or in accordance with reason or logic.
  6. 13. The feeling of affirmation or recognition that your beliefs or feelings are worthwhile and correct.
  7. 14. Looking or sounding bizarre, unfamiliar, or strange; wildly exaggerated.
  8. 16. Spreading widely throughout an area or group of people, often used to describe an unwelcome influence or feeling.
  9. 18. A sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act.
  10. 19. The most important or essential person or thing in a complex situation or organization.
Down
  1. 1. The bias of seeing past events as having been predictable, often summarized by the phrase "I knew it all along."
  2. 2. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong; the opposite of perfect or infallible.
  3. 3. The quality of having a modest or low view of one's own importance; the opposite of arrogance.
  4. 4. The fundamental basis or foundation that supports an argument, theory, or system.
  5. 7. Extremely large in size, scale, or importance; monumental.
  6. 8. A collection of tools or resources available for a specific purpose, often used metaphorically to describe a debater's arguments or a chef's skills.
  7. 9. The ability to do something successfully or efficiently.
  8. 10. Having limits or bounds; the opposite of infinite.
  9. 15. Mental shortcuts or rules-of-thumb that the brain uses to make quick judgments and decisions.
  10. 17. Made dramatically more powerful, faster, or effective.